Stations of the Cross Stations of the Cross
Perhaps no contemporary writer has more singlemindedly mined a single vein of literary ore than E.L. Doctorow has New York City, especially the New York of the past.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Melvin Jules Bukiet
Dog Days Dog Days
The first thing Jim Jarmusch asks you to do in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is to look up and down.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
The Beat The Beat
PRISON PROTESTS: February 15 was a doubly significant date in the history of US criminal justice.
Feb 23, 2000 / John Nichols
A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These A Moderate Wouldn’t Make Appointments Like These
It may be legal, but it's still a coup d'état. The nomination of Theodore B. Olson to be solicitor general, a position of such influence that it is often referred to as "t...
Feb 20, 2000 / Column / Robert Scheer
Run, Ralph, Really Run Run, Ralph, Really Run
Ralph Nader is running for President, and a fair number of progressives are excited by the prospect. They should be.
Feb 16, 2000 / John Nichols
A Tale of Two Reformers A Tale of Two Reformers
This presidential election--so far--is the tale of two establishments, one that held firm, one that started to crack and moved fast to hang tight.
Feb 16, 2000 / David Corn
Farewell, Steve Forbes Farewell, Steve Forbes
We mutter adieu now to Steve, Who finally decided to leave. We thought he might never be done With buying his place in the sun.
Feb 16, 2000 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Education and the Election Education and the Election
By now most of us accept as almost inevitable the idea that education, meaning school reform and access to college, is at or near the top of the political agenda, both in the sta...
Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Peter Schrag
An Antisocial Idea An Antisocial Idea
Just because the ed whiz-biz politicians and the education bureaucrats have announced the end of "social promotion" doesn't mean that it ever existed--not for the past thirty yea...
Feb 16, 2000 / Feature / Susan Ohanian
Dade Ain’t Disney Dade Ain’t Disney
Tired of all the stuff about the Cuban kid who is rapidly being turned into the most pampered brat in the world? The press can be blamed, of course.
Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Robert Sherrill